600 cLxxu. . OYPERAOEE, (C. B. Clarke.) [Cyperus. 
8. C. silletensis, Nees in Wight Contrib. (1834) 79; middle-sized or 
slender, stolons 0, umbel contracted or reduced to 1 head, spikes glo se 
dense, spikelets small linear many-fld., glumes ovate-oblong, nut oblong: 
obovoid i-$ length of glume. Kunth Enum. ii. 33 ; Boeck. in Lannea, “Cat 
555; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 132.—Oyperus, Wall. Cat. 
3363 F, 3536 (partly). 
BENGAL, AssaM, SIKKIM, and BURMA. roduci 
Stems 4-12 in., rather slender at top, flowering the first year, but often p M und 
short lateral shoots from the base of stem. Spikes pale brown. Glumes at top 
triangular. Otherwise resembling C. difformis.—Seldom collected, but not rare. 
9. C. pulcherrimus, Willd. ex Kunth Enum. ii. 35; middle sized, 
stolons 0, umbel dense usually compound with innumerable spikes 0, ed 
very small linear spikelets, glumes ovate-oblong, their oblong up j^ 1 
towards rhachilla, nut broadly ellipsoid 2 length of glume. | Mig. "Lina. 
Bat. iii. 267; Boeck. im Linnzma, xxxv. 573; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Zoll. 
Soc. xxi. 132; Trimen Cat. Pl. Ceylon, 100. C. eumorphus, Steud. on sis; 
Verz. Ind. Archip. ii. 63, and Syn. Cyp. 22; Mig. l. c. 268. C. sil Pty) nd 
Thw. Enum. 343. C. Haspan, Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 270 (partiy): 
Cyperus, Wall. Cat. 3357. 
SIND, Pimwill. BzNGAL, Wallich. Assam, Grifith, Ze, Geen, Thwaites 
PENANG, Curtis, n. 1954, —DISTRIB. Java, Borneo. 2. the crisped 
Very near C. silletensis ; dried examples are easily distinguished by the 
incurved top of glume. Spikelets very like those of C. flavidus, which is a slender 
species. 
10. C. Haspan, Linn. Sp. Pl. 66 (partly); middle-sized or set? 
pale or red not yellow, rhizome long-creeping but plant often ii pn] 
first year, spikelets 2-6-digitate small linear, stamens 3-2, nut oe Nees in 
or obovoid 3-4 length of obtuse glume. Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 2105 b. Fi. 
Wight Contrib. 80 (partly); Kunth Enum. ii. 34; Dalz. & Gibs. de ‘and 
282; Thw. Enum. 343; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 574, var. a part » mi- 
var. 8; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 287, and xxi. 119. ©: den 
nifolius, Poir. in Lam. Encyc. vii. 267; Kunth l.c. 98. C. p “Heyne, 
Bertol. Mise. Bot. viii, 30, t. 3, fig. 1. Cyperus gracilis, Herb. E 
Wall. Cat. 3369, D, E, F, 3372.— Scirpus, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 58, t. 15 E 
(excl. Syn. Linn.). AU 
Throughout INDIA; abundant, especially in dibbled rice-fields.—DISTEU^ 
warm regions. 
Glabrous. Rhizome in typical form creeping, 6 in. and upwards, 
ovate triangular scales and with distant solitary stems ; but stems often sometimes 
on a very short rhizome or with fibrous roots only. Stems 4-30 hort or longer 
stout, almost 3-winged at top, sometimes slender trigonous. Leaves shor e, thi 
and overtopping the stem, or 0. Umbel small or large, compound or simp 
straggling with few spikes, or dense with innumerable spikes ; bracts She eg 
and far overtopping umbel, (in Khasia examples) long, + in. broad, tip velopmen 
lanceolate. Spikelets 1-2 by Ae in., 10-40-fld., varying much in CoV PE. ugs, 
Glumes close-packed, ovate, obtuse, obscurely (or not) mucronate. Ani gcabrid 
oblong, often bristly at top. Nut trigonous, slightly compressed, minu les i 
or smooth, pale brown (sterile white); style about as long as nut, pp 
slightly exsert.—This and many other species show that in Cyperace® 
ts. 
stem, length and breadth of leaves, development of umbel, length of bracts, 
often futile characters. 
e w or 
1L C. flavidus, Retz. Obs. v. 13; slender, annual, ripe yell 
